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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback.
Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press Czech Republic
Number of pages
140
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9788086264448
ISBN
9788086264448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.48

Paperback. Translator(s): Pargeter, Edith. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241290224
ISBN
9780241290224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landlady's blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his life to build, and factory men strain to catch a glimpse of a beautiful bathing murderess. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784871178
ISBN
9781784871178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. *The greatest novel by one of the greatest of all Czech writers. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 7. Weight in Grams: 70.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349101255
ISBN
9780349101255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Translator(s): Naughton, James. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241290262
ISBN
9780241290262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540625
ISBN
9780099540625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Hrabal s books are distinctive witness to the life of ordinary people only at first glance. In the book, Rambling on await the reader stories set in the popular Hrabal s Kersko. The book was filmed in 1983 by Jiri Menzel. " Translator(s): Short, David. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 191 x 13. Weight in Grams: 166.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Karolinum Press, Charles University
Edition
Classroom ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9788024632865
ISBN
9788024632865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. Homi Seervai is a Parsi scientist, who invents a machine which activates the memory store of the brain. When a love affair finishes, Homi uses the machine to relive good times, but the machine goes wrong, and he experiences ancestral and racial memories. This is the author's first novel. Series: Phoenix Fiction S. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226143811
ISBN
9780226143811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Paperback. * The stunning new novel from Bonnie Burnard: 'A writer who can tell you hard truths, hopefully' Alice Munro Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844086405
ISBN
9781844086405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Condition
New
SKU
9781681370767
ISBN
9781681370767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.28

Paperback. Meet Margo Crane - a female Huckleberry Finn, a teenage Scout Finch - as she single-handedly takes on a hostile world in this enthralling debut. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 142 x 213 x 27. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780007237463
ISBN
9780007237463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. A girl with a gun fights for survival in the American wilderness, in a tale that will enthral fans of The Hunger Games and True Grit. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
KTG0014474
ISBN
9780007443376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow, and he just can't seem to keep out of trouble.. The fourth novel in the bestselling crime series from the author of THE WINTER QUEEN. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753820971
ISBN
9780753820971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. The second Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753818435
ISBN
9780753818435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Canine conspiracies, spurned lovers, murderous greed, jealousy, politics, power and knitting: Pelagia and the White Bulldog marks the beginning of an addictively entertaining new crime series from the internationally bestselling author, Boris Akunin. Series: Sister Pelagia Mystery. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753821572
ISBN
9780753821572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A failing young Russian American journalist's life is unexpectedly transformed when he forges Holocaust restitution claims for his rogue grandfather and his friends Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 217 x 26. Weight in Grams: 374. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
One
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KRA0009787
ISBN
9780957548831
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself embroiled in a battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the beautiful nurse Lara. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
9780099448426
ISBN
9780099448426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.11

Hardcover. Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women. Translator(s): Hayward, M.; Harari, M. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150414
ISBN
9781857150414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 14.93

Paperback. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara. Translator(s): Volokhonsky, Larissa; Pevear, Richard. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099541240
ISBN
9780099541240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

First published in 1977, this novel of ideas follows Konrad Rutkowski - professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer - as he returns to the scene of his war crimes determined to renounce, or perhaps justify, his Nazi past. Translator(s): Rakic, Bogdan; Dickey, Stephen M. Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe S. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 121 x 32. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810117198
ISBN
9780810117198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 95.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927063347
ISBN
9781927063347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.20

Relating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O Regan, this novel covers the major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issues of the twenty-eight year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison. Editor(s): White, Ed. Num Pages: 626 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 948.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
588
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209923
ISBN
9780872209923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 102.91
€ 78.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harmony
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400082001
ISBN
9781400082001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.74

Paperback. Half Apache and mostly orphaned, Edgar Presley Mint's trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, pain and trouble accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life experiences. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286769
ISBN
9780099286769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.37

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